As a midwesterner, I feel obligated to point out that "snowy, backwoods" Michigan has a substantial middle eastern population and also any R1 school (like, presumably U of M, though I didn't see the film to confirm that's where she went) is going to have foreign/diverse students represented in graduate school.
Obviously, clunky handling of race is lame in any state, though.
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As a midwesterner, I feel obligated to point out that "snowy, backwoods" Michigan has a substantial middle eastern population and also any R1 school (like, presumably U of M, though I didn't see the film to confirm that's where she went) is going to have foreign/diverse students represented in graduate school. Obviously, clunky handling of race is lame in any state, though.